The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-04-06

terms ranging from one year to twenty
years One of them was acquitted.
The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland
dined at the British Embassy, Vienna,
on the 10th of March. The Duchess was
then in her usual spirits except that she
confessed herself homesick. 1t is now
stated that her malady is only severe
melancholy. The Duke has recently
visited the asylum in which the Duchess is
confined. but is not allowed to see her.
Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coberg has
written TO the members of the Sobranje
expressing his desire to be nominated as
candidate for the Bulgarian throne.
A special from st. Petersburg asserts
that one general officer in active service,
three cavalry officers and seventeen infan-
try, artillery and engineer officers, have,
within the past forty-eight hours, been
suddenly removed from their quarters,
and their whereabouts is unknown, with
the exception of three, whose relatives
state that they have been shot on alleged
proof of treason. Tne second dispatch
states that the Russian army is undoubt-
edly honeycombed with the. revolutionary
element, and predictsa military rising un-
less the country very soon employs the
disaffected troops in a campaign, at dis
lance from the scene of agitation.
The Emperor of Germany's birthday
celebration at Berlin was a remarkable
ard grand ovation. Bismarck assured
Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria and
Hungary, who represented his father at
the EmperOr's birthday celebration, that
Germany's foreign policy is pacific, that
peace is assured for 1887, and that there
is no cause for disquietude in either the
East or West. State banquets were given
in Paris, Vienna, and other capital cities.
1t is said that Prince Albert Victor,
aged %, is infatuated with the American
wife of Lord Randolph Churchill. The
Prince has been ordered to foreign service.
Lord Randolph has returned to London,
and his wife joins her family at New York.
No blame is attached to the lady.
American capitalists having attempted
to buy the controlling interest in all Ca
madam iron and coal mines, Canadian
capitalists have organized a coal and iron
association of Canada with a capital of
$50 100000 The American syndicate want
to export Canadian ores to America to be.
smelted there.
Russian agents are believed to have laid
plans for simultaneous rising in Afghan
istan and the Punjaub. In consequence
of news from the Governor of Herat that
the Russian Governor of Turkestan has
ordered Islander Khan, with 10000 men,
Of fob
tan has ordered 10000 men to be in readi-
ness to re-enfOrce the troops at Herat.
A London dispatch states; Eighty-fve
persons lost their lives by the explosion i'll
the Bull coliery, Newcastle, New South
Wales. The bodies have been recovered.
The Cambridge crew won the University
boat race in England. Bad steering lost
the Oxford crew the race.
1t is rumored that Sir John Macdonald
will be raised to the peerage and succeed
Lord Lansdowne as Governor General.
Oscar S. Straus, a Hebrew and lawyer,
has been appointed United States Minister
to Turkey. He is a German by birth, aged
Sc years.
Stanley had reached the mouth of the
Congo March 18th. His relief expedition
was to start up the river Immediately.
Bulgarian leaders insist upon renouncing
the suzerainty of Turkey and prOclaiming
a Kingdom.
The French steamer Scotia, of the Fabre
line, went ashore near Blue Point Station,
Long Island, March oath. Her passengers
and crew, numbering L, 200, were all res
cued.
The Tory Government is bent upon push
ing the Coercion bill. Civil war may re-
suit from it in Ireland.